Hometown heroes: Lincolnton's Darian Roseboro on first ranked N.C. State team since 2010

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Oct 4, 2017 at 8:40 AMOct 4, 2017 at 8:40 AM

Wolfpack host first game between ranked teams since 2000, another Big South honor for Taylor Hinson, other notes

Richard Walker Gazette staff JRWalk22

GASTONIA - N.C. State and Lincolnton's Darian Roseboro will take the Wolfpack's first national ranking since 2010 into Thursday's 8 p.m. nationally-televised home game against No. 17 Louisville.

N.C. State (4-1 overall, 2-0 ACC), ranked No. 24, hasn't hosted a game between two ranked teams since 2000 (Florida State) and hasn't won a home game between two ranked teams since 1992 (Wake Forest).

Roseboro, a 2015 Lincolnton High graduate, has 16 tackles (three for losses) in five games as a reserve defensive lineman and has helped N.C. State win four straight games.

College golf

Taylor Hinson (Gaston Christian 2017) of UNC-Asheville last week was named Big South Conference women's freshman golfer of the week.

She was the top Big South freshman scorer at the Pirate Collegiate Classic in Greenville with a 23rd-place finish out of 90 competitors with a nine-over-par 225 (77-72-76). The Bulldogs' top top finisher, her even-par 72 in the second round matches her personal best and in the third round she eagled the par-5, 440-yard 18th hole.

Professional baseball updates

Former Gastonia Post 23 and Gastonia Grizzlies standout Tyler White finished his second major league season hitting .279 with three home runs and 10 RBIs in 22 games for the Houston Astros. White hit .300 with 25 home runs and 89 RBIs in 111 RBIs for the Class AAA Pacific Coast League Fresno Grizzlies before getting two promotions to the Astros.

And former Gardner-Webb and Belmont Abbey standout Emilio Pagan ended his rookie major league season with a 2-3 record and 3.22 ERA in 34 appearances. Pagan went 2-1 with five saves and a 2.56 ERA in 23 appearances for the Class AAA Pacific Coast League Tacoma Rainiers before getting three promotions to the Mariners.

Pro football

Jonathan Bullard (Crest 2012) has three tackles in four games for the Chicago Bears (1-3), who hosts the Minnesota Vikings on Monday night at 8:30 p.m.

For the Bulldogs, Ralph Jolly (Shelby 2014) has three catches for 25 yards and one touchdown, Quinton Patterson (Crest 2013) has five tackles, Dalton Cochran (Crest 2012) has three tackles and Josh Ramseur (Burns 2014) has 20 tackles.